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Quentin de la Bedoyere
What’s changed in my lifetime? Almost everything
i seem to have had a quiet life. yes, it began with deciding the proximity of the next nazi bomb through the tune of its whistle or seeing h...
When it comes to sermons, short is beautiful
i recently attended a weekly mass in my parish – to commemorate an important family occasion. my housekeeper came with me. being a big paris...
What I wish I'd known about bereavement
it may seem strange to write a column about the experience of bereavement, but i learnt so much from it that i think it may be helpful for o...
How much free will do we really have?
i like to think of myself as a reasonably intelligent person. after all, i have had a long life, following a jesuit education, being married...
How to read a book in five minutes
some 50 years ago my son came to me for help. he was preparing for his a-level history examination. but his mind was so cluttered with facts...
Poetry and science are both rooted in imagination
the poetry and music of science by tom mcleish oup, 384pp, £25/$35 this book attracted my eye because i combine my role as a science columni...
Do you have hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia?
hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means a fear of long words. i can cope with sesquipedalian, which means containing long words, because i...
James Clerk Maxwell: Behind the groundbreaking equations, a firm faith
professor maxwell’s duplicitous demon by brain clegg icon books, 304pp, £16.99/$25 names like albert einstein and isaac newton spring easily...
Is meat about to get the chop?
if, like me, you have millennial granddaughters, you will have encountered vegetarianism. what several years ago was regarded as an eccentri...
When was the last time you set aside an hour for self-examination?
before he was elected pope, joseph ratzinger spoke of socrates as “in a certain respect the prophet of jesus christ”. he saw him as a philos...
How to free your brain
why is the first paragraph of this column so important? that is easy to answer: if the first paragraph sounds sufficiently interesting you a...
Japan shows us the worrying consequences of falling birth rates
this november the bbc reported on a dramatic study, published by the lancet, which told us that falls in the fertility rate of nearly half o...
Why they shouted ‘Heil Hitler’
in a village in poland in 1942 you, as a member of a company of german soldiers, are raising your rifle at a crowd of women, children and th...
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